김홍도의 관동사경과 울진 문암

Abstract

One of the biggest questions about the ‘Haedong Myeongsan Do Album 海東名山圖帖’, which is believed to be related to the works left by Kim Hong-do 金弘道 after his official trip to Gwandong region and Geumgang-san Mountain areas in 1788, is the 16th leaf of the Album. The painting, commonly known as ‘Munam 門巖, the Gate Rock of Tongcheon County,’ has so far been considered to have been disturbed in editing for some reason, because the rock was drawn between Mangyang-jeong Pavilion and Seongryu-gul Cave in Uljin County, 300 kilometers away from Tongcheon. Between Uljin and Pyeonghae County, where Kim Hong-do traveled, there was a stone gatekeeper on a rugged beach cliff, serving as a military hot spot during the Japanese Invasion of Korea. Literary records from the Joseon Dynasty show that it was called ‘Gongam 孔巖’, ‘Duam 竇巖,’ ‘Munam’ or ‘Stone Gatekeeper 立石門’. In fact, Uljin's Duam Rock appears repeatedly on painting maps of the late Joseon Dynasty, such as Kwangyeodo, Jiseung, and Yeojido, besides Haedong Jido. And on these maps of Uljin we can discover the same footnote that reads, “Duam is also called Munam.” Therefore, we can see that the Munam that Kim Hong-do had in his paintings was not from Tongcheon but from Uljin County.